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matheusmoreira | on: The UK's war on anonymity has come to America
Banning it just for kids requires identification and is strictly worse.
inigyou | parent | next
Consider the ID check as a soft ban. Adults will ban themselves because they don't want to provide ID.
Gigachad | parent
If you want it banned for everyone, ID verification doesn’t even matter since presumably you wouldn’t be on the platform anyway.
account42 | root | parent
ID verification that comes with banning it for children won't be limited to Facebook and other platforms like that.